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TRADITION AND INFANT BAPTISM.
No. 5.
BY B. W, WHILDEN.
We see by what follows that
those who reject all tradition and
take the Bible as t heir sole guide,
can fearlessly meet the Roman
ist and put him to silence.
In the life of Rev. Eugene
Kincaid, Baptist missionary, the
following circumstance is men
tioned, which circumstance is
written by himself:
Mr. Kincaid was on a steam
boat on the Ohio River, when it
took place. Aboard the steamer
there was a French Jesuit priest
—a professor of languages in a
Popish college in Kentucky. He
did not know that Mr. Kincaid
was a Baptist.
“Sitting in my state-room,”
says Mr. Kincaid, “ with a small
Bible in my hand, the Jesuit
came along and very politely in
quired what book I had. Being
informed, he said in the most
bland and winning manner,
‘good, good,' and then for some
minutes went on describing the
glory and perpetuity of the
church, all the while fixing his
dark and piercing eyes on me, as
if he could read my inmost soul.
The great and cardinal dogma
of popery, infallibilit y in inoarls
and religion, at length showed
itself; and then he appealed to
me, if I did not seal the import
ance of having an infallible
guide. ‘Certainly,’ I replied:
•the reason of man utterly fails
in being a safe guide in religion.'
‘Good, good'.’ exclaimed the
Jesuit; ‘you will be a Catholic
yet.’ Opening my Bible I said,
‘Here is my infallible guide in
morals and religion.’ ‘Very
good, very good,’ rejoined the
Jesuit; ‘but who shall be the in
terpreter of the Bible? Do you
take Calvin?’ ‘No.’ ‘Do you
take Luther?’ ‘No.' ‘Do you
take Arius and Socinus? ' ‘ No.'
‘Well, you take Wesley then? ’
‘No; I take the Bible, and utterly
reject all human authority.’
‘You make yourself wiser than
Calvin or Luther. You must be
a very great man, and have a
very good opinion of yourself.
•No, I have so good an opinion
of the Bible and such confidence
in the wisdom of Paul, and Peter,
and John, that their authority is
everything to me.' ‘Good, good,
replied the Jesuit: ‘I see you will
be right yet. Did not Christ say
to his church, I will be with you
always to the end of the world?
And when the apostles died, did
they not have successors; and
was not Christ with them, and
then with their successors?—and
so on in the third and fourth
centuries? Did not Christ speak
truth —I will be with you even
to the end of the world? There
was only the one Catholic church
for the first four or five hundred
years; and is not the Catholic
church the same now as it was
their? And do you not see, as
in Oxford, the most learned
Protestants in the world are go
ing back to the apostolic
church? ’
‘ True,’ I replied; ‘the apostles
as Christians had successors, but
as apostles they had no succes
sors. In the early ages there
were false apostles and false
Christs, and they deceived many.
So Paul wrote: Let no man de
ceive you by any means; for
there shall come a falling away,
and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition, who op
poseth and exalteth himself
above all that is called God, or
that is worshipped; so that he as
God, sitteth in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God.
And in another place: For the
time will come when they will
not endure sound doctrine; but
after their own lusts shall they
heap to themselves having itch
ing ears; and they shall turn
away their ears from the truth,
and be turned unto fables. Hence
the oft repeated command of
Christ; He that hath an ear to
hear let him hear. What? What
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popes ami cardinals have said?
What councils have decreed?
What prelates and doctors
have written? No such thing.
Christ says: Let him hear what
the Spirit saith unto the church
es. Here is the infallible guide
—the teachingsof the Spirit, and
these teachings make up the word
of God. Those who hold fast
the doctrine of Christ are the
true successors of the apostles;
and there have been such in all
ages since the resurrection of
Christ, and to them is fulfilled
that promise: Lo I am with you
always, even unto the end of the
world.’
‘Do not all the Protestants
talk in this way? ' exclaimed the
Jesuit: ‘and are there not forty
different kinds of Protestants in
America; and how can any one
tell which is right? '
‘Many,’l replied,‘calling them
se'ves Protestants, broke off
from the Roman Church and
brought along more or less of
the dogmas of that church. The
Roman church has made up her
creed partly from Christianity,
partly from Judaism: and now
many leaving Paganism behind,
still blend together Judaism and
Christianity. Hence, even until
this day, when Moses is read as
authoritative in religion, the
veil is upon their heart. To this
source may be traced nearly
all the errors of pious Protes
tants.’
‘ls it not a little remarkable,
said the Jesuit, ‘that the only
two dogmas in the support of
which the Catholic church de
pends entirely on tradition, the
Protestants have adopted—the
change of the Sabbath and the
baptism of infants? Now, you
cannot prove from your Bible
that the Sabbath was changed,
or that infants were to be bap
tized.'
‘Very well,’ I replied, ‘I hold
to nothing but what is clearly
taught in the Bible. I keep the
first day of the week, because
the first Christians observed it,
and there is no evidence that they
met together on any other day
for Christian worship. That the
disciples met together on the
first day of the week to engage
in acts of Christian worship and
that they designed to meet on
the first in preference to any
other day, and that it was sanc
tioned by Paul isa recorded fact.
Here, then, 1 stand on apostolic
ground.’
‘You must prove then,’ said
the Jesuit, ‘that the command in
the decalogue is repealed.’
‘No,’ said I, ‘that command
stands and is as binding on me
as it was on the primitive Chris
tians. Six days shall thou labor,
but the seventh day is the Sab
bath of the Lord thy God. The
disciples in the days of Paul
labored six days in the week,
but no more; on the first day in
the week they met together in
their Christian assemblies. Here
there is divine authority for
meeting together on the first day
of the week for Christian wor
ship.’
‘Yes,’ said the Jesuit, ‘you do
read in your Bible that the
Christians came together on the
tirst day of the week to break
bread; but you cannot find. in
your Hible that the a pasties baptized
infants: this you have got from
the Catholic church, and yet you
abuse the Catholic church for de
pending on tradition.’
‘Very true,’ said I, ‘very true.
There is no divine authority for
infant baptism; it in based only on
tradition, and so / reject if alto
gether. Infant baptism is the
offspring of a Judaising spirit,
and betrays great ignorance of
the true character of a Christian
church; through its influence,
whole nations, without reference
to character, are brought into
the church. I regard infant bap
tism, in its practice or tendency,
as one of the worst dogmas of
popery. Let it be taken from
the system and believers’ bap
tism be restored, and the whole
superstructure of Rome will tum
ble down.’”
The Jesuit saw then the true
position of his opponent, and re
tired from the controversy.
Williston, S. C.
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FROM MISSISSIPPI.
It will gratify friends and rela
tives in Georgia to learn that my
grandson, Dr. I. C. Robert, Jr.,
V. M. D., a graduate of Miss.
A. and M. College, under Gen. S.
D. Lee in class 1892, and also a
graduate of Veterinary >epart
ment of Penn., and University
of Philadelphia —class 1895—has
been commissioned by the Sec
retary of Agriculture at Wash
ington D. C., Assistant In
spector in the Bureau of Animal
Industry in the U. S. Deparment
of Agriculture. He reports for
duty in Chicago, 111., 11th inst.
If possible let this appear and
gratify many relatives and
friends. W. H. Robert.
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OUR ROME LETTER.
Rome, Aug. 6, 1895.
We arrived in Rome Sunday
morning to breakfast. I found
that Dr. Taylor was on a visit to
the U. S. and Dr. Eager absent
in Florence. In the evening Rev.
Win. Burt, who is superintend
ent of Methodist missions in Ita
ly, conducted us to their new
building, elegantly located, cost
ing 81(i0,(io0, and admirably
adapted to their work of print
ing, educating and preaching.
The house is six stories high,
covers 155x95 feet and will have
two preaching rooms one Eng
lish and one Italian a S. S.
room, a college for young men,
a school for girls, a theological
school and a printing establish
ment. All this indicates that
they have come to stay, and it is
the promise of much work to be
done.
All yesterday morning we were
sight-seeing, visiting specially
the old Roman Forum where
Cicero thundered against Cata
line, and the church of St. Peters
and the Vatican. The wilderness
of paintings, statuary and fres
coes we will never forget; but
much of all this splendid art is
based on tradition and untruth,
and will some day be superceded
by works more true to fact and
divine truth. And, although it
is not good form so to do, 1 con
fess to a preference for the
works of tin 1 modern masters
ami cannot rave as some do over
these older creations. We did
not see the Pope. At our hotel
—the Continental —there are five
parties of tourists one has 78,
another 72. Ours is composed of
16—all on good terms with each
other and disposed at all times
to contribute to the general com
fort and pleasure. The Italians
are a tine people— not to be judg
ed by the samples in America.
Though Catholic, they love their
King and they love liberty. They
seem pleased with the Ameri
cans and study us with deep in
terest. In the afternoon we
went down into the catacombs
and saw the sad evidences of the
sorrow of former days. On the
spot where Paul was said to
have been beheaded the Pope
has built a church, the most
splendid I ever saw. For seven
ty-live years the splendid aggre
gation of the world's finest mar
ble and granites has been going
on, and the building is rapidly
becoming all that modern genius
and podigious wealth can pro
duce. It will be twenty five
years before its chmpletion. It
is hard to understand why such
a building should be erected three
miles away from the people. All
about it were beggars, old and
young, soliciting al ms. It seems
a pity that so much shoidd be
spent on such splendid buildings
and so little on these unhappy
poor.
A guide gave us a just descrip
tion of that marvel of Ancient
Rome, the Collisseum, at whose
dedication 10,000 human beings
were made to die. What King
of Dahomey ever equaled that?
Our entire party is elated over
what we have seen and enjoyed
in the various cities visited. We
no longer ask, as we did the first
two days out at sea, “Why was I
such a fool as to come on this
tri])?” The things we have seen
are ample compensation for all
expense and the sorrows of the
sea. The Tiber, the vineyards,
the farms, of which Virgil wrote,
here they are. And we drove
for miles along that old Appian
Way along which Paul, the pris
oner, trudged on foot as he went
up to Caesar’s tribunal. We saw
the old Tarpean Rock, down
whose 60 feet the traitors of
Rome were hurled. We have
made some purchases as we went
along. At “The Hague” we
bought some souvenirs of old
Holland. At the Bon Marche
(Good Bargains) in Paris we
found much to our tastes. In
Genoa were the most exquisite
ly beautiful filagree work in
silver and gold. Here in Rome
mosaics have tempted us. In
Florence we expect to inspect
the glass mosaics, and in Brus
sels the pretty laces. We go to
day to Naples and will have a
peej) at Vesuvius now in a state
of eruption.
Good day,
A. T. Spalding.
Palmetto. —Mr. James Kath
cart, member of Palmetto Bap
tist Church, died July 29th.
Two young ladies joined Pal
metto Baptist Church by experi
ence Aug. 3rd. Mr. Edgar Bal
lard, son of Hon. Levy Ballard,
died in New Orleans Aug. 13th.
His remains were brought to
Palmetto for burial Aug. 15th.
Funeral by G. W. Colquitt at
Ramah.
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Neal. —Pastor J. D. Carreker,
at the close of his meeting here,
baptized twenty-two converts.
For the IN I>EX
TEXAS NOTES. (
BY W. A. JARREL, DI D. f
The editor of this paper hav
ing solicited contributions from
my pen, after bowing in prayer
for grace to make me a blessing
to its readers, I begin my task.
Mentioning prayer as a prep
aration for this service, suggests
to my mind that if God's people
would always realize that what
they speak and write to and about
each other must either help or
hinder each other in the divine
life, many heart aches and un
charitable utteumces which so
till our mouths, papers and
hearts, would never be known.
Do not our consciences very
much need touching here?
Beloved,let us love one anoth
er; for love is of God; and every
one that loveth is born of God,
and knoweth God ” —1 John 1:7.
The other morning in my pri
vate devotion, I was very much
impressed with Paul's words;
“Walk in wisdom toward them
that are without, redeeming the
time. Let your speech be al
ways with grace, seasoned with
salt, that ye may know how ye
ought to answer every man" an
exhortation much needed for our
relation to all classes.
On the whole, crop prospects
in Texas are very good this year.
While lands are comparatively
low priced now is the time to set
tle in Texs. Georgia has furn
ished Texas with many of its
best citizens and church mem
bers. Texas is ready to wel
come many more such from
Georgia. Run up to Memphis
and there take the “Old . Relia
ble” Iron Mountain and Texas.
Pacific Route to Texas and come
and see us.
The rowdies who are endeav
oring to get the Corbett-Fitz
simmons bruising disgrace into
Texas are tinding the world bet
ter than they presumed, and.
consequently, rough sailing.
Protests against it from good
citizens are coming up from all
over the State; the Governor
has issued a proclamation for
bidding it: both the Attorney
General and the Comptroller
have spoken in no uncertain tone
against it.
Unless these rowdies steal i
hide away to “pull it off" it v, iff
not likely take place«in ') exa'4.
The 'Texas Haptist and Herald Is
doing most valuable service
against it.
The trouble between the noble
president of Baylor University—
Dr. Burleson —and its trustees is
published as settled—a matter of
gratitude to God.
Brother J. M. Carroll, one of
our most efficient money raisers,
has undertaken to raise the
money for releasing Baylor Fe
male College from its embarrass
ing debt. Many noble men and
women are anxious and prayer
ful for the success of this under
taking. Once free from debt,no
female college in the South has
a brighter future than has Bay
lor Female College, at Belton,
Texas.
Baylor University, at Waco,
Texas, is expecting to soon open
its fall session with a very large
attendance.
This is our revival season. The
Lord is giving many of our
churches and preachers great re
freshings.
Unless there soon come more
care as to receiving members in
our churches and as to the en
forcement of church discipline it
is gravely feared that the time
is not far off, if not now here,
when a certificate of church
membership will be no recom
mendation to its holder as a re
liable man and a reliable woman
in society and business, saying
nothing of Christian character.
Rev. Mr. Fortune, pastor of
the First Baptist church, of
Paris, Texas, is out in a pam
phlet sermon in which he de
nounces the time honored doc
trine of Baptists, thus: “The
substitution of Christ. . . .
does not mean that he stood in
our place, representing our guilt
and receiving the punishment
due to our sins. . . • In har
mony with this substitution and
indeed an essential part of it is
the doctrine of imputation. . .
so the obedience and suffering of
Christ in their stead is the mer
itorious ground of justification
and consequent regeneration of
the beneficiaries of his redemp
tion. . . . It is sufficient to
say that no where in the New
Testament is the doctrine of the
imputation of Christs’ righteous
ness taught.”' “There is no
statement in the Bible that
Christ died instead of man.” “It
cannot be that God consented to
such a travesty.” How many of
Georgia’s churches and preach
ers have advanced as far as
these words show the Paris pas
tor has advanced?
The Rev. M. T. Martin, whom
some of you know in Georgia, in
some parts of our State has such
a following us to cause our
churches much trouble and di
vision. The other day one of his
followers began a debate with a
prominent Baptist pastor.
Without invitation some of his
followers go intoloculities where
there are Baptist churches, and,
in a school house ora tent, begin
a series of discourses and assults
on the Baptist churches therm
and end in organizing a new sect
there. This has recently been
done in Stephenville and Cot
tonwood. Doubtless this is a
fully adopted plan of the Mar
tinites. Possibly, not all of Mar
tin's followers approve of this.
But it is believed they will all
fall into line soon.
Like the first Camphellites
they protest that they are misun
derstood and misrepresented.
And like them, always come
out at heresy and division point.
Like early Campbellites, num
bers of their preachers deny be
ing Martinites until they have a
grip on, at least, some of the
church near where they pitch
their tent. How far they will
create division it is impossible
to say. But, it is hoped, not
very widely. That they hope to
get co-operation and influence in
both Georgia and Mississippi is
believed.
Brother J. F. Duncan, the
scholarly pastor at Navasota,
Texas, reports that a scholarly
Methodist in his city has been
converted to Baptist views by
reading my new Baptist History,
proving that Baptist churches
have existed from the apostolic
age to the present .
Such men as the lamented
John A. Broadus, your own Dr.
Gambrell very highly commend
it. Many such scholars pro
nounce it the best Baptist His
tory in vindication of Baptist
“Succession.”
To any address I will mail,
free, full description of the book
with a long list of testimonials of
European and Americaa schol
ars. .
It has over 500 pages. —Sent
to any address on receipt of
price 82. See standing adver
tisement in this paper.
I must here close this lengthy
letter.
Dallas, Texas.
For the I ndex.
Where Shall Our Boys be Sent to
College?
BY .1. D. CHAPMAN, D. D.
Just now this serious question
confronts many of our people:
Where can I, with greatest ad
vantage to my son or daughter,
send them to college? This
question requires careful con
sideration. College life is a
crisis in the life of the young. It
makes or destroys. Apart from
the training received at mother's
knee, there is no more important
period in one's life. The college
professor impresses powerfully
the pupil, often changing the
trend of the mould of his char
acter, and this impression, good
or bad, directs his thoughts and
actions through life. It is not
the habit of pupils to question
the professor’s teaching; they
regard his teaching as of the
highest authority. A skeptic or
heretic does an irreparable dam
age. We of the Southland have
not recovered fully from the
heretical teaching of a much ad
mired and beloved professor of
our Seminary a few years ago.
A shallow, pompous-speaking
professor in a school where I
preached a few years ago, did
many of our young people an in
jury that I fear they will never
overcome. At the school age the
mind is susceptible of impres
sions, and what we want is that
only good impressions shall be
made.
In behalf of our boys I want
to say a word in favor of Mercer
University:
1. Everyman connected with
the University is not only a pro
fessing Christian, but is person
ally a humble, devout follower
of ('hrist.
2. This tacu Ity not only have
naturally tine minds, but, in ad
dition, their scholarship, so far
as I know, and I have some op
portunity for information, is not
surpassed by any like faculty in
our Southland.
3. These men take a personal
interest in 'the boys’ bodily and
spiritual welfare. Now that the
Bible has been made by the
Trustees a regular text book, all
the classes will do more or less
study in this neglected Book, and
so will give those who teach, a
far better opportunity to impress
the young men with higher
spiritual things.
4. Good board can be obtained
at reasonable rates. A young
man that is determined, with or
without money, need not miss
this opportunity. Write to Pres
ident J. B. Gambrell for a cata
logue. The way will open if you
are resolved.
I would like to speak of each
member of this faculty from
I’resident Gambrell on through
the whole number. 1 wish that
every Baptist of Georgia knew
each one of them. If so, not
less than 360 boys would knock
at Mercer's door for entrance this
fall.
We seem to be in a transition
period, certainly we are in an un
settled period. There is a striv
ing for the mastery. Who is go
ing to rule, the ignorant and vic
ious? No not always. There is
no weapon needed like Christian
education. Those who have this
will gain the mastery. 1 hope
to. see the time when all Baptists
will emphasize Christian educa
tion. Neglect of this is one of
the great secrets of our weak
ness. Many care little about ed
ucation in any form; others sub
ject their children to the instruc
tion of the ungodly. If the soul
is the most valuable part, cer
tainly it should not be poisoned
in our education. Let us look
for the old paths, in the educa
tion of our children, wherein is
the good way. The.se for our
Baptist Zion would seem to con
verge in Mercer University.
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OUR NORTH CAROLINA LETTER.
BY THOS. HUME, I). I).
Few environments are more
than those of Asheville, N. C.,
as the world knows now. Its
pure air invites the invalid and
its attractions of field and wood
and stream outside and subur
ban charms like those of the
Vanderbilt palace and park and
the Connolly view and the Rich
mond (Pearson) Hill and the life
of the town itself all woo the
tourist and pleasure - seeker.
Church life is well maintained.
The Baptists have in the First
church a noble brotherhood, one
of the finest of auditoriums, a
tasteful parsonage a-building
and an admirable preacher, Rev.
J. S. Felix, D. D. The Second
or French Broad church, estab
lished through the labor and lib
erality of Dr. J. L. Carroll, has
had varying fortunes and is now
doing useful work under the ac
tive administration of a brother
who knows how to entertain the
stranger as well as to care for
..IT’ ow fleck, Rev. J. T. Betts.
This interesting town was fitly
chosen as the seat of the South
ern Biblical Assembly which has
just closed its sessions after one
month of continuous exercises.
Men of every evangelical denom
ination helped to throw light on
God's word. Dr. White, of Wash
ington and Lee, Prof. Alexan
der, of Vanderbilt. Dr. Noah K.
Davis, of the University of Vir
ginia, and Prof. H. H. Harris,
newly elected professor of Bibli
cal Introduction and Polemics in
the Theological Seminary, occu
pied the morning hours from
week to week in scholarly, pene
trating, devout teaching of the
Book from Genesis to Revela
tion.
In the afternoon conferences
of ministers, professors and oth
ers were held on such subjects as
the Bible and the Sabbath, the
Bible in College and University,
the Bible and its Critics, the. Bi
ble and the Family, the Bible in
the Revival and Inquiry Meet
ing. Sunday school leaders and
workers held special sessions, in
which methods of teaching and
administration were considered
by experts. Child-culture occu
pied the minds of deeply inter
ested observers. The nights were
given to lectures and exercises
of a more popular character, but
all intended to illustrate the
great Book and enforce its in
spired lessons. This first expe
rience has been a marked suc
cess. The bracing air enabled
the participants to go to their
work with jileasure. There were
intervals of rest or delightful re
creation. It was an education to
hold converse in private with
many of the men who were not
conspicuous on the platform.
Christian friendshij)s were form
ed amongst men of different de
nominations that proved the es
sential unity of all those who
are in Christ and rejoice in a per
sonal experience of his saving
grace. The moral difficulties of
the old Testament, questions of
the authorship and insj)iration
of books of the Bible, of the con
nection of parts of scripture,
prophesy, the Maccabean period,
the life of our Lord in the four
gospels, the unfoldings of His
truth in the Acts and the Epis
tles, and other subjects were re
viewed with candor and convic
tion, and learning seasoned with
prayerful faith. Men and wo
men; Bible in hand, crowded the
morning sessions of the Bible
school. White and Alexander
were instructive and inspiring.
The first had proven his fitness for
tine work by his course in Wash
ington and Lee and by his books
on the Petateuch and on the tes
timony of the old Monuments;
VOL. 75-NO. 34.
the second, a devout Methodist
preacher and noble teacher at
\ underbill, isoneof Dr. Broadu’s
students of old, full of vital
force. You will be interested to
know that our consecrated lay
man, Prof. Davis, looked the
prophet and philosopher he is
and hold with increasing pleas
ure the throngs who heard his
scholarly ami spiritual pictures
of Jesus of Nazareth, our Lord
and Savior. 1 left with keen re
gret the charmed scene just as
that prime thinker and expositor,
that judicious critic and interpre
ter. that clear and strong teach
er, Prof. Harris, was to begin his
work on Acts and Epistles. We
can well believe that it was a
noble ending to a scries of les
sons full of wisdom, broad and
high, but conservative, in the
true sense. The Baptists were
invited to the feast and gave and
took. Dr. J. B. Turpin, of Amer
icus, Ga. did excellent special work
on the Bible and the Sabbath and
in eloquent sermons and skil full
and appropriate discussions, of
several questions bore his part
well. Rev. J. L. White, of Ma
con, led or assisted in confer
ences on important subjects, and.
attracted as large congregations
in his old church, which is so
new and beautiful, as he has al
ways done. Dr. S. C. Clopton,
late of Anniston, Ala., gave a
masterly afternoon paper and a
charming night lecture, on Pales
tine, based on his own experi
ences. Dr. Sampey, of the Sem
inary, rendered efficient service.
Dr. J. L. M. Curry, at home
amongst Asheville jieople, was
as strong and bright as ever and
captured the elegant hospitality
of those members of that Rich
mond household, who have been
transplanted here, some of the
daughters of the great and gen
erous leader, James Thomas - .
Dr. Taylor, of Wake Forest, did
his tine work after I left. Your
correspondent did the duty as
signed him in conference and
pulpit and young people’s meet
ing. This assembly will repro
duce its best features during the
great Exposition this fall at At
lanta and will improve upon oth
er matters of detail and admin
istration. Gen. John Eaton,
former U. S. Commissioner of
Education, a noble old Roman
and eloquent leader, is president
of the body Dr. J. E.
Gilbert, nutho \ iuablt aelps
to the study of the Bible, is sec
retary. Dr. G. has remarkable
executive faculty and inspiring
power as teacher and director.
The American Society of Relig
ious Education, of which they
are officers, makes it the import
ant element in its work to prompt
everybody to a more faithful
study of the word of God. The
headquarters is at Washington,
D. C., and all Christians might
well foster its objects by con
tributing the amount of the an
nual fee, five dollars, and at
tending upon the feast of fat
things provided by its skilled
managers. I am sure Georgia
Baptists will find it to their in
terest and profit to correspond
with Rev. J. L. White, who spe
cially represents the assembly
in your State, or Rev. J. B. Tur
pin. The assembly will mett
again u!feo in Asheville next year.
I did not do justice, I find, to the
high-class evening lectures, ex
cept Dr. Clopton's. Distinguish,
ed men of different States leetur
ed on Bible character and cus
toms (our Dr. M. B. Wharton on
the Bible and Character Build
ing was received with marked
favor) and Hr. Peter V. Mamre
ov, of Jerusalem, himself and'
assistants in various costumes,
illustrated the Sacred page and
gave new meaning to its truths;
as he accompanied his scenes
and pictures with racy discourse
in very fine English.
Chapel, Hill, N. C.
TV*
Leverett.— An interesting'
meeting of five days has just
closed with the Baptist church
at Wells Creek, eight miles
south-east of Lincolnton, Lincoln
county, Ga.
This meeting was begun by
the pastor, W. H. Green. Elder
Thomas Walker, pastor Second
Baptist church Kollock street,
Augusta, Ga., reached the church
Saturday afternoon. Brother
Walker did all the preaching
afterwards, day and night, to
large and appreciative congrega
tions. He is a man of spiritual
power. Eldeis John Hogan and
J. L. Guillebeau, of New Hope
church, together with many
brethren from other churches
rendefed valuable service.
With many prayers for the suc
cess of the dear old Index in
every Baptist church and home.
I am yours in the work,
W. H. Green.
Creswell.—Rev. E. W. Ham
mond has closed the protracted
meeting here—baptizing twelve
into the membership of the
church.